[Diaspora] fate and consequences

[Yunus Wesley]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Doyce Testerman
<smarter at average-bear.com>wrote:

> Brad: those are excellent. Since I don't mind contributing to my own
> request, I've added some that have come up in recent sessions, below:
>
>
>> SO: BRAINSTORM.
>>
>> Let's have some Minor, Major, and Severe Consequences for:
>>
>>
>>   - Social Conflicts
>>   - Personal Combat
>>   - Ship Combat
>>
>> Social - Minor
>> * Embarassed
>> * Shaken
>> * Upset
>> * Hesitant
>> * Uncertain
>>
> * Flabbergasted
> * Distracted
>
* Deja vu
* Irritable
* Aroused

>
>> Social - Major
>> * Uncommunicative
>> * Injured ego
>> * Unappealing
>> * Second guessing everything now
>> * Deeply ashamed
>>
> * Mild panic (works in personal combat too)
>
* Flashbacks
* Vertigo
* Dissociated

>
>> Social - Severe
>> * Catatonic
>> * Sobbing uncontrollably
>> * A laughing stock
>> * Completely confused
>> * Paralyzed with fear
>>
> * These guys are just too good
> * Game over, man. Game over.
>
* Burning, acid rage
* Utter distrust

>
>
>> Personal - Minor
>> * Little fingers aren't that important
>> * Grazed
>> * Cut
>> * Bruised arm (etc.)
>> * A bad cough
>> * Little blood in my eyes
>>
> * Wind knocked out of me
> * My bruises make such a pretty pattern...
> * WARNING: This gas has reduced your lifespan by 10 years...
>
* Stitch in the side
* 2nd degree burns
* Only a flesh found
* You'll have them slugs in ya fer years

>
>
>> Personal - Major
>> * Blurred vision
>> * Broken arm
>> * Coughing up a little blood
>> * Shattered foot
>> * Bleeding badly
>>
> * (this was on our 'immortal, super healing' character) "Sword shoved right
> through my shoulder and snapped off/Everyone will know my secret"
>
* Concussed
* Internal bleeding

>
>
>> Personal - Severe
>> * Shattered knees
>> * Punctured lung
>> * Pretty sure that's supposed to face the other way
>> * Blind
>> * Bleeding out
>> * Vomiting blood
>
> * Amputated AND cauterized - mining lasers do it ALL
>
* Brain damage
* Smashed organs
* 3rd degree burns

>
>
>> Ship - Minor
>> * Crap flying everywhere
>> * Rebooting
>> * Flickering electricals
>> * Getting hot in here
>> * I hear an ominous hissing
>>
> * Klaxons wailing for no good reason (successful EW)
> * Every interior hatch is locked (successful EW)
>
*  Fatigue fractures
* Groaning frame
* Leaking atmosphere
* Plumbing catastrophe (see "crap flying everywhere")
* Obnoxious pop-ups (more EW)
* Control panels explode, killing extras

>
> Ship - Major
>> * Breach on deck C
>> * Blue screen of death
>> * None of these targets can be real
>> * It's like a sauna in here
>> * Venting r-mass
>> * Can't get this spin under control
>> * Beams off line (etc.)
>>
> * *Friend-or-Foe Recognition Disabled* (another EW consequence -- the
> players then compelled this to 'force' the affected ship to shoot one of
> their allies during the next torpedo phase, which was excellent)
>
* Burning metal surfaces --PCs take damage
* Coolant leaks
* Mass load asymmetries
* Positioning motors firing randomly
* Beams firing on overload
* Uncontrolled overburn
* Loosing cargo from holds

Ship - Severe
> * Engineering is radioactive
> * Drives shut down
> * Too hot to breathe
> * Total decompression
> * Bridge crew all dead
> * The enemy owns my fire control system

* Airlock Override! (venting atmo into space, crew scrambling for vac suits)
- yet another EW consequence. Electronic Warfare is WONDERFULLY EVIL

* Positioning completely unresponsive
* (repeat for each other Phase-related systems)
* 70% of reaction mass lost
* Heat radiators destroyed




-- 
Best regards,

Yunus Wesley

Graduate Department of Religion
Emory University
Atlanta Georgia, USA
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